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Malaysia  – Criteria for Affordable Housing Performance Measurement

A home is one of the basic human needs, thus a new concept known as Grow Home has risen. This concept was established to encourage more families to buy their own houses. The Grow Home concept is based on the notion of affordable housing. This paper aims to explore a proposal for affordable housing measurement with six assessment components. In other words, this work intends to study factors that can affect affordable housing assessment. In this paper, we investigated the 20 criteria for affordable housing assessment given by Milliner and Maliene in their study. Then, we rearranged these criteria into five components, and added the Grow Home component. Each component has different criteria. Finally, six affordable housing measurement components are identified, namely, income ratios, loans and accommodations, facilities and services, safety and comfort, quality management, and Grow Home. These components are also considered as main factors that directly affect affordable housing. This study aspires to contribute to existing literature by proposing six assessment components as a measurement of affordable housing. Affordable housing is a concept which is used to explain socioeconomic and development environments, and which aims to confirm if housing provided for families can be afforded by each income-earner cluster, that is, low, middle, or high income-earner cluster. Aside from its relationship to different aspects of residences and localities through infrastructure and community facilities, affordable housing is also related to the ability of a family to pay for their house.

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